Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-09-03
PARAGRAPHS OF INTEREST.

On Ohio tame crow has lived to pass bis
BOD birthday.
They use an old hearse In jackson to peddle
peaches from.
A Boston 30 barber has retired a''er sixty
Half tho people rated as millionnires nows-
days could not draw $4,000 check.
1t will be fashonably Notifying 70 admit
not having been to Europe in the summer OF
1857.
Birch bark stationery is quite extensively
used this season, and every one processes en-
thusiasm over it.
The skeleton of man was recently found
in thicket OIL tho battlef1cld-of Antietam
and by its side the scabbnrd and blade Of an
officers sword.
Asbury PARK boasts OF pet dog who ai>.
pears OIL the board walk with diamond col,
lnr He is Maltese pug ind belongs to the
vito of q New York broker.
s2.Americus, Ga, has obtained tho cheapest b
railroad In the world She as,secured about
Twenty gJt mi les ot road thu fuli sanli
complete control over it
William McD iar1nid is probably the Oldest
printer in the United States. Flo WINS born
hi, Edinburg 1793, and helped @set up" Wal
ter>Scott's novels from tho original manu-
script
Joseph Caller, near Fabyan's, has one Of
mountains. 1t is>s white porcupine, "a big
ono, too, weighing twenty-five pounds, and
already so tame that it eats from it's owners
hand.
The largest bunch Of bananas OIL record
was shipped to Mount Vernon, n. Y, one
day last week, 1t measured four feet in
length and weighed four hundred pounds
Some of the bananas measured sixteen inches
i'll length.
The school officials Of Boston have posted
notices in all the school buildings of that city
forbidding the chewing of tobacco by the
pupils. They have even posted the notice Ia
the girls high school building, much to tho
indignation Of the young women.
1t is reported from Paris that a group Of
hero worshipers purpose to buy the decor
ated locomotive which drew Boulanger out Of
Paris, and preserve it as rclic OF the general,
or give it, still adorned with its Inscriptions,
to the lato minister of war, as o substitute
for his magnificent black horse.
Once in while justice bobs up with the
rug OFF her eyes. The will of an old Wash
ington man, jacob Wiener, is found to have
cut off daughter with single dollar.
Some time before he had given her an elegant
house on condition that ho was to have a
home with her. She got the deed and
promptly fired the father. .He has taken @
grim sort Of revenge which everybody will
approve.
A Washington man tells of quarrel be
tween two negro boys. Tie larger boy, with
great volubility, was applying every sort Of
abusive epithet. The younger boy, leaning
against fence and steadily regarding the
speaker with sulen scowl, waited for halt.
At last it came. as you done?' Eyes, I Is
DONE" Then slowly and coolly the younger
said: aAll dem tings You say Is, you is
DEM"
Capt. Thompson, of thu British steamer
Muley Hassan, has remarkably sagacious
retriever dog. The steamer was passing
through tho Strait, Of Gibraltar, when the.
dog showed signs OF restlessness, and finally
jumped overheard. a boat was lowered and
the dog was discovered holding the collar ct !
the coat of drowning man, who was lying
across two oars TIE man was afterwaTd
discovered to be the only survivor Of Span
ish revenue felucca. which had been upset
four hours previously.